Welcome to Grover Furr's Documentation and Research
Page

At present this page has seven sections. You may jump directly to any of
them from the Table of Contents, without having to scroll down the whole page. At the end
of each section there is another jump marked (TOC) which takes you back to thi s Table of Contents.

Another listing of Internet-accessible libraries. It includes TELNET
or other addresses, log-ins, passwords, etc. See the section "Gateways to
other online Library Catalogs" at the bottom of the page as well.
Replaces the older Yale Gopher list.

Yahoo
-- Reference Section. Yahoo is one of the largest and best WWW "search engines". Its Reference
Section is a good place to begin searching if you are wondering what reference sources are
available on the WWW.

Professor
Gigabyte's Gateways To Infinity.
The best single site I know of for a general, one-stop source of many WWW sites of
interest, and one of the very easiest to use! From Prof. Donald Warman, at Dana College
(Blair, Nebraska).

THE FOLLOWING SITES are for encyclopedias and specific reference books.

'Net-Happenings' is a mailing list that attempts to list all new WWW
pages and sites as they come on-line and are announced to the public. It comes in digest
mode, as often as several times a day, and as such is almost impossible to follow
personally. Her e you can search its entire archives by key word. An alternative to the
"Search Engines" covered in a later section.

Tilenet offers several different search tools including this one for
mailing lists (here called "listserves", after the most common software used for
them). Its general search address allows searches for Usenet newsgroups and ftp
sites as we ll, so I put it here, too:

The media, religious groups, right-wingers, "New Agers", and
many other sources make rather fantastic claims. "Cold water boils faster than hot
water!" "The Virgin Mary is appearing in Queens, New York (or
wherever...)!" "Noah's Ark was found in Turkey!" "Balancing the
national budget is good for you!"

Or -- a particular favorite of mine -- "Stalin killed more people
than Hitler!" [An excellent article refuting this and much more nonsense, with
appropriate evidence, is here. The
whole series, with index and jumps here,
is worth studying.]

Where can you go to "get the dope", i.e. refute, this kind of
nonsense? Well, for statements of the last two kinds -- political and historical -- see my
"Politics and Social Issues" page here! But for the
other kind, DO NOT FAI L to check out at least one of these sources:

The
Skeptical Inquirer, WWW page for the journal of the same name. These people
publish research articles debunking bunk of all kinds, especially religious and
"magical."

Thanks to Dr David Stuehler, an abbreviated version of the ALPHA
Manual which I wrote for student and faculty use at MSU is now available on-line. Click here to go directly to
this manual, which you can either use on-line or download.

IF you want to get the latest version of my entire ALPHA manual, click here to mail me a note, and I'll send it
to your email address as a Mail message, which you can download or 'extract/noheader' to
make into a file at the $ (VMS) prompt. Instructions are on the very first page of the
manual.

Click here
to go to the ALPHA NEWS READER INSTRUCTIONS, which you may use on-line or download.

The complete manual (over 200 pages) is available in "zipped"
format (you must use PKUNZIP or another such program) HERE.

Many other sites contain summarized versions of the information in it,
which you can use for most research and term-paper purposes. Here are some of these s ites

I would be VERY interested to learn from you which of these sites
are most useful, and which are not; which are the most complete, and which
are too scanty or simply duplicate the fuller ones. Please let me know, to make these
links m ore useful for students!

Or, if you prefer, you may enter your search in the form below, and it
will be sent automatically to ALTAVISTA. Try it!

Search and Display the Results

You may also search with the MetaCrawler engine:

Searching Listserv Archives.
This excellent page gives you detailed instructions for searching the archives of many
Mailing Lists -- 'pound for pound' the most useful research tools on the Internet. A truly
invaluable resource!